So far I've cropped all the photos with the same ragged border, and I'm going to see how I can arrange the text. The portrait one is definitely going to break the text layout pattern, if nothing else...

These are not nail colours I like, but I find them kind of distantly pretty: [link] (turquoise and gold).

I have pottery from the 50s that looks like that.

A new Jillifont has been found

Oh swell.

Trogloraptor is a pretty badass genus name.

Okay, that I will agree with.

ita !, I love the ties you found. Someday I will own something from Cyberoptix.

Last night on Tumblr I had an eldergoth tantrum and told them I was turning this internet around and grounding everyone. I stand by my statement, because there is NO reason for someone on Etsy to have tagged a Backstreet Boys t-shirt with "90s Goth". NONE.

Maybe the whole tag was cut off; it was actually "90s Goth Me Down :(".

Backstreet's back, ALLRIGHT!

Msbelle is the boybandiest.

I know nothing about design, but feel like text that is white outlined in black or vice versa would be readable on anything, but also that it probably would be easier to have the picture and then the text under. Or over.

It's really sad how little I know about design -- I was trying to put two logos on something at work, and I could tell it was terrible, but had no idea how to fix it! And the answer was embarassingly simple, when someone else looked at it.

Two things I love: The bookstore which will buy my old books and let me get more books. They bought five or six from me, and I gave them another dollar and left with three books. This is perfect, since my main reason to sell books is lack of space. I was surprised they wouldn't take the one I bought last week, but wonder if they'll take it in six months. Hilariously (but not actually surprisingly), they wouldn't take the one by William Weld, because you know everyone bought that as sort of a gag gift.

Also I love Trader Joe's! My new local one is about a mile away, and bigger than any one I've ever gone to! And sells wine. I bought slightly more than was comfortable to carry home, but won't do that again. I was definitely in restock mode.

Next I'm going to clean a lot of lettuce and put it in tuppers for salads. I hate making salad so much (especially with dirty CSA lettuce) that I never do it, but if I make up several now, I will eat them this week for dinner.

And my apartment is Very Close to being put together. Phew!

You and Liese inspired me to tackle the linen closet, which is now ... piled over my bedroom. Help.

I know this has surely been noted before, but there I am at CNN's web site and I see Jilli in one of the little pictures of stories on the side. Sure enough, there she is at the top of an article. Cool.

Don't read the comments! Or so I hear.